On 24 Apr 2006 at 12:29, Eric Warnke wrote: > 3) Config files are needlessly over complex. It has taken weeks to > fine tune the config files in order to achieve a stated goal for our > in-house needs that is not overly complex ( 90 days of guaranteed > backups ). Almost every time a complex change was made to the config > required stopping everything, wiping the database, wiping labels and > restarting. This does not give me the warm fuzzies about how this > system will fare under a production load. Another problem with configs > is that something as simple as leaving the level off of a Schedule run > = line will cause the director to silently crash.
Can you summarize what types of changes required deleted the Catalog and erasing existing backups? > 4) The way that incremental and differentials are structured does not allow > for good differential pooling since incremental can be based on > differentials. Because of this you can't recycle your differentials before > you re-run a full backup. If incremental were only based on fulls or > incremental, you can recycle your differentials on a faster cycle to reduce > tape space for in exchange for longer restore times for older files. What's wrong with not using one of incrementals or differentials? Would that solve your problem? > 6) Does not track deletions between full backups. Restoration will uncover > deleted files. Over a long period of time this could lead to restorations > that exceed the space on the partition that is being restored especially for > sites that have long retention periods and heavy tunover. The major problem > is that there is probably no way to stort out those files that belong and > those that do not! This project is in the pipeline: http://www.bacula.org/?page=projects See item 3 > This list does not mean that we will not end up using bacula since > this list looks better than the alternatives, but is a list of items > that give me pause to implement this system on a full time production > status. At a minimum these items should be noted in the documentation > ( some already are ). This list is also out there for others who might > be evaluating this project for their use as well. If you can provide patches, or at least update the wiki at http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php with the changes required, others can easily update the document so it is clear to you and others. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
